Archive for January, 2016

During rehabilitation following an acute hospital stay, medications that block neurotransmitters may be overprescribed to older patients suffering from delirium superimposed on dementia, according… Read & Research Alzheimer’s More

The first study to investigate the effects of cognitive training on the cognitive functioning of older adults by education level has found that individuals with fewer than 12 years of schooling… Read & Research Alzheimer’s More

Scientists from the University of Granada have developed a new fluorescent dye capable of detecting, in a single test lasting 20 minutes, the presence of phosphate and biothiol inside living cells. Read & Research Alzheimer’s More

Scientists have pinpointed the cells that are likely to trigger common brain disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease, Multiple Sclerosis and intellectual disabilities. Read & Research Alzheimer’s More

Dementia (a decline in memory and other mental abilities) is a serious condition, and its prognosis (the likely course of the disease) is marked by progressive loss of cognitive function and… Read & Research Alzheimer’s More

Up to now Alzheimer’s disease has not been recognised as transmissible. Now researchers at the University of Zurich and the Medical University Vienna demonstrated Alzheimer-type pathology in brains… Read & Research Alzheimer’s More

Researchers from Karolinska Institutet identified inflammatory brain changes among people with Alzheimer’s-related gene mutations 20 years before estimated symptom onset. Read & Research Alzheimer’s More

Meet a microscopic gymnast.A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) and the University of California (UC), Berkeley shows how a crucial molecular enzyme starts… Read & Research Alzheimer’s More

After conducting a review of animal and human studies into anxiety, fear and stress, researcher found chronic stress and anxiety increases risk of depression and dementia. Read & Research Alzheimer’s More

Women who take oestrogen supplements from before or at the start of menopause and continue with them for a few years have better preserved brain structure, which may reduce the risk of dementia. Read & Research Alzheimer’s More

An international team of researchers, which counts with the participation of the University of Granada, has unveiled some details about stem cells biology unknown to this day, which will be essential… Read & Research Alzheimer’s More

Taking more time to make decisions after a mistake arises from a mixture of adaptive neural mechanisms that improve the accuracy and maladaptive mechanisms that reduce it, neuroscientists at New… Read & Research Alzheimer’s More

Recently, quantitative metabolomics identified a panel of 10 plasma lipids that were highly predictive of conversion to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in cognitively normal older individuals (n = 28, area under the curve [AUC] = 0.92, sensitivity/specificity of 90%/90%). We failed to replicate these findings in a substantially larger study from two independent cohorts—the Baltimore Read & Research Alzheimer’s More

Just as most of the world’s air travel passes through a few major hubs, the majority of information in the brain flows through similarly well-traveled routes, Indiana University scientists have… Read & Research Alzheimer’s More

A Mayo Clinic study of people who received anesthesia for surgery after age 40 found no association between the anesthesia and development of mild cognitive impairment later in life. Read & Research Alzheimer’s More

It may be possible to assess the risk of developing dementia by analyzing information gathered during routine visits to the family doctor, according to research published in the open access journal… Read & Research Alzheimer’s More

An immune system-activating cancer medication improves cognitive performance and memory and reduces pathology in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease, reports a new paper published online in Nature… Read & Research Alzheimer’s More

Researchers from the Department of Pharmacy at the University of Copenhagen have developed a cell line, which may be used to investigate new drugs and help predict whether they are able to enter… Read & Research Alzheimer’s More

Loss of synapses best correlates to cognitive deficits in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in which oligomeric neurotoxic species of amyloid-β appears to contribute synaptic pathology. Although a number of clinical pathologic studies have been performed with limited sample size, there are no systematic studies encompassing large samples. Therefore, we performed a Read & Research Alzheimer’s More

Information and communication technology (ICT) is potentially mature enough to empower outdoor and social activities in dementia. However, actual ICT-based devices have limited functionality and impact, mainly limited to safety. What is an ideal operational framework to enhance this field to support outdoor and social activities? Read & Research Alzheimer’s More

Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered a mechanism that may explain how the brain can recall nearly all of what happened on a recent afternoon – or make a thorough plan… Read & Research Alzheimer’s More

The chronic state of low-level inflammation seen in many elderly individuals (sometimes called “inflamm-aging”), is associated with diseases such as cardiovascular disease and dementia, as well as… Read & Research Alzheimer’s More